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The office of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) sends over the news that he’ll be the ranking member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee.

Something else from Attorney General Eric Holder’s apparent decision to seek prosecutions for low-level CIA interrogators (Argh!) over torture: Newsweek reports

The ongoing vaccines-cause-autism debate has taken a new turn recently. There’s really little left to be debated, since the scientific evidence has

Hundreds of people gathered in Benton Harbor yesterday to protest the Emergency Manager law that has stripped power from the local government. “Benton Harbor is the new Selma of the 21st century, a battle ground for human rights and civil liberties,“ Mayor Wilce Cooke told a crowd that gathered in the town library before the march. “The whole world is watching us to see what is going to happen here in Benton Harbor

This is starting to make the veins in my forehead throb. Sarah Posner finds Vision America’s Rick Scarborough untethering himself completely from reality to

Good news first: The oil spewing from the busted well on the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor is likely of a light grade that will be easier to clean up than some

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag kept up the pressure on Senate Republicans over the weekend by continuing to raise the possibility that

Though a 2012 referendum to reverse Maine’s 2009 same-sex-marriage repeal is not yet official, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has already

Prime Prep Academy’s most famous backer was there in person when the Texas State Board of Education voted to approve its charter application in September, and

At a news conference in Atlanta on Thursday (which I haven’t seen, but read accounts of), the Atlanta parents of 9-year-old Hannah Poling revealed that in

Here’s a textbook case for the DISCLOSE Act that’s up tomorrow for a vote. It centers on Americans for Job Security, a pro-business issue advocacy group, that

First they delayed the reforms; now they’re trying to expedite them. The House approved legislation today to have its previously passed credit card reforms

Speaking to the point in my last post, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked Blair if his point to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) about withholding some interrogation

Here’s the statement just issued from the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in response to today’s news that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter

The political wrangling over where Guantanamo Bay detainees are going to go is only getting more complicated -- and stranger -- as the president’s deadline for

Maybe it was the recent Gallup poll showing that more than 62 percent of Americans favor some sort of investigation into alleged Bush administration

With the Senate race in West Virginia between sitting Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and businessman John Raese in a virtual dead heat going into the final week,

Just in across the transom: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced a press conference with

The administration’s push to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire faces opposition from Republicans in Congress -- and some Democrats.

Mike Madden reports that Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist last seen handing out beer and chicken wings at a press conference on Sonia Sotomayor,

The Washington Post has a great piece today on mining safety. According to the story: Federal regulators have increased their inspections at 89 coal mines